ADOS ppl in Non Southern States

[Biscayne]

What Southern states, counties, and towns did your people come from originally? Do you hear similar linguistic patterns among the ppl in your current city as ppl in the Southern state your kin migrated from? Do you feel a natural kinship with the ppl in those Southern towns who aren't family? I understand that there are ADOS in parts of the NE who can trace their roots to the NE exclusively. But this thread is primarily for those ADOS who's kin were involved in the 1st and 2nd Great Migrations from the The South to the North, Midwest, and Westcoast..

Let's keep this thread respectful and peaceful. ADOS history has always been one of the most(if not the most) intetesting histories of the diaspora. And I've been obsessed with The Great Migration.

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/black-neighborhoods-in-non-black-cities.505105/

 

[SATAN]

Dad is from Southern Mississippi. Mom is from Memphis. Mom's parents are from Louisiana. Great-grandparents from Mom's side are from Haiti and Dominican Republic

Mom's side if the family moved up to Chicago right after my Mom was born, my dad came up to Chicago in the 80's

My whole family has a Southern accent, my great-grandparents, in the short time I knew them, spoke Spanish and English.

People usually think I'm from Memphis based on my accent even though I grew up in Chicago

 

[315]

Maternal granny from Anderson, SC, maternal grandfather from Winston-Salem, NC
Father from York, SC

None of us really have the southern drawl that my grandparents and their siblings have but we use a lot of the 'Bama slang and sayings they do lol

 

[Biscayne]

Dad is from Southern Mississippi. Mom is from Memphis. Mom's parents are from Louisiana. Great-grandparents from Mom's side are from Haiti and Dominican Republic

Mom's side if the family moved up to Chicago right after my Mom was born, my dad came up to Chicago in the 80's

My whole family has a Southern accent, my great-grandparents, in the short time I knew them, spoke Spanish and English.

People usually think I'm from Memphis based on my accent even though I grew up in Chicago

Damn. Other Chicagoans think you're from Memphis?

 

[Biscayne]

Maternal granny from Anderson, SC, maternal grandfather from Winston-Salem, NC
Father from York, SC

None of us really have the southern drawl that my grandparents and their siblings have but we use a lot of the 'Bama slang and sayings they do lol

Did you enjoy trips down South?

 

[315]

Did you enjoy trips down South?

Never went. There really isn't much family still there. Everybody moved to NY. On my mother and father's side

 

[lurker emeritus]

born in new orleans, raised in st. louis
dad side from new orleans, LA
mom side originally from lake providence, LA
the further north i go, the countrier people say i sound
but i don't think i sound country at all because i've been in the midwest since i was 2 years old
and we don't have accents. we the standard for how you should talk.

 

[96Blue]

Grandmother is from Texas (I forgot which part).

Grandfather is from Cleveland to my understanding.

Mom is from New Mexico and my biological father is from New York.

Grandmother moved my fam to California in the 60's-70's and me, my siblings, and cousins, etc. We're all born here, so my whole family has been here for decades.

Only thing I know about my GREAT Grandmother is she was half-Native with "long black hair".

I gotta go see her pictures at my great aunt's house.

 

[Elle Driver]

Dad was from Louisiana and part of the Great Migration. Most of my family is still there, my brothers are from Brooklyn and I’m from Uptown.

 

[Cel 510 kid ados forever]

grandmas lou and miss Grandpa Texas ala

most ados in cali are originally from lou Texas arkansas.

there was a little from ala and miss but most of them went to midwest or east coast.

but yeah most are family came in first great migration in 1930's


the southern racism was too much and jobs were better in cali so they came out here.

 

[Cel 510 kid ados forever]

Dad was from Louisiana and part of the Great Migration. Most of my family is still there, my brothers are from Brooklyn and I’m from Uptown.

what part of Louisiana

my folks was from slidell

 

[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

The migrations are extremely predictable


LA, MS, AL Chicago/Detroit/Midwest

GA/FL/NC/SCNYC/Tri-state area

TXCali

 

[prime]

Dad parents is from Alabama and my mom Dad is from Mississippi and my granny is grew up in Chicago but my great granny is from Mississippi man my mom side of the family is big as fukk I got people in Mississippi,Georgia,Memphis,South Carolina,Alabama,Arkansas and Louisiana we had our family reunion and a niqqa was like at how many people was there

 

[315]

Dad parents is from Alabama and my mom Dad is from Mississippi and my granny is grew up in Chicago but my great granny is from Mississippi man my mom side from the family is big as fukk I got people in Mississippi,Georgia,Memphis,South Carolina,Alabama,Arkansas and Louisiana we had our family reunion and a niqqa was like at how many people was there

I've been to a couple reunions. Amazing experience

 

[Elle Driver]

what part of Louisiana

my folks was from slidell

Baton Rogue, New Orleans and New Iberia.